Commissioning Engineer

Description:

I'm currently looking for a Commissioning Engineer to join one of the world’s largest renewable energy companies globally.

Our client provides HV O&M Services to renewable energy assets in the UK & Ireland across a portfolio of onshore & offshore wind, solar & battery storage sites.

We need an experience Commissioning Engineer who can undertake site installations, protection maintenance, protection defect rectification and general commissioning activities across our clients portfolio at all voltages preferably up to 400KV.

The successful candidate should be willing to travel to various sites across the UK at short notice although all other aspects of the role can be done remotely.

Key Responsibilities:

• To ensure a safe and healthy working environment for themselves and others, at office or site locations. Operating to site requirements, project method statements and risk assessments, and the clients HV safety rules.

• Supervising/performing of commissioning activities on switchgear, transformers and related equipment on both AC & DC systems.

• Carry out protection testing on both HV & LV assets to diagnose any faults and organise repairs.

• Carry out wiring modifications and retrofit upgrade to sites where protection systems may have issues.

• Attend site and interact with suppliers, construction teams, sub-contractors, and grid connection providers to ensure safe and successful commissioning programme.

• Perform SAT, system start-up testing and co-ordination with utilities for energisation of interconnection.

• Undertaking FAT, including reviewing of procedures, attending FAT and adjusting commissioning tasks to integrate FAT successes and deficiencies.

• Ensuring as-built drawings/documents are marked up correctly and updated where necessary.

• Tracking and resolving issues by working with HV SAPs/ project managers and any sub-contractors.

• Co-ordinating the delivery of contestable/non-contestable grid connections.